Senior Years, Masculine Retirement Card, Well Suited, 2021-2022 Stampin' Up! Catalog

Third time is a charm, right?  The first time I posted this card I set it up to publish a week ago. I don't know what I was thinking, so I changed the date and deleted the post date I didn't want. I ended up deleting the whole thing. UGH.  SO I tried it again. I had it all set to post and noticed something I wanted to change. I went to change it and I didn't have any luck so I did the CTRL Z thing and it backed up once but I needed more so I did it again and it all disappeared.  I tried all of the other CTRL tricks to get it back and had no luck, so here I am again trying to remember what I typed so I get all the info in correctly.  UGH.

I found this card on Pinterest. You can see the original card here. I made a few little changes.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Pacific Point card stock.

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock. I set this piece aside.

I cut a 3-5/8" x 3-1/2" piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the Well Suited 12" x 12" package. I marked the right side at 2-1/2" and I set the piece on my paper cutter lining up the left bottom tip and the 2-1/2" mark and I cut the angle.  

Next I took a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" piece of Pacific Point card stock and I die cut a 2-3/8" circle. I made sure the circle was die cut as close to the corner edges as possible to use the least amount of card stock as possible.. After die cutting the circle I cut a 1-1/2" strip off the Pacific Point card stock.  Then the tips at the bottom of the piece were made. You can snip them or punch them. I still had the "Triple Banner" punch so I used it. I'm too lazy to find center and snip.  Once the piece was done, I cut it to 2-1/2".  Because the DSP was checkered, it was easy to line up that strip to get it straight. I taped that strip to the back of the DSP. I set it on top of the Basic White piece so I could see where to stamp the words.

The words on the Basic White piece are from the same "Senior Years" set and were stamped using black Memento ink. Then I textured it using the "Tasteful Textile" embossing folder. You want to stamp your words first because it's very difficult to get a nice solid stamp when you stamp on top of texture. Once the texturing was done, I glued the piece to the Pacific Point card base.

Then I glued the DSP piece to the top of the textured Basic White piece.

I stamped the cute little man using black Memento ink and I fussy cut him out. I colored his hair, eyebrows, pocket edges, center of the belt and pants using the light Smoky Slate Blends pen. I colored is face using the light Petal Pink Blends pen. I used a black marker for his shoes and belt. And his vest was colored in using my Pacific Point marker. There's no Pacific Point Blends pen, I checked!! I then set him in place on the circle using Dimensionals.

I added Dimensionals to the circle and I set it in place over the DSP on the right.  A 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock was added to the inside of the card and the card was done.

This was a very fun, quick and easy card to make. I think it would make a nice Father's Day card or a birthday card too!

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop by and see this cute retirement card,
Wanda